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Ayer Reveals Jared Leto's Tattooed "Suicide Squad" Joker
He lay with a pack of panting dogs on a hill overlooking plains where antelope grazed. He marched with ants, and labored in the rigors of the nest, filing eggs. He danced the mating dance of the bower bird, and slept on a warm rock with his lizard kin. He was a cloud. He was the shadow of a cloud. He was the moon that cast the shadow of a cloud. He was a blind fish; he was a shoal; he was a whale; he was the sea. He was the lord of all he surveyed. He was a worm in the dung of a kite. He did not grieve, knowing his life was a day long, or an hour. He did not wonder who made him. He did not wish to be other. He did not pray. He did not hope. He only was, and was, and was, and that was the joy of it. (Clive Barker, from Sacrament)
Dark Horse Presents #4. "Beasts of Burden: Food Run" by Evan Dorkin (writer), Jill Thompson (artist), and Jason Arthur (letterer); "Rotten Apple Chapter Three" by Chuck Brown (writer), Sanford Greene (artist/colorist), Tyson Hesse (colorist), and Steve Dutro (letterer); "The Adventures of Dog Mendonça and Pizzaboy Chapter One" by Filipe Melo (writer), Juan Cavia (artist), Santiago Villa (colorist), Pedro Semedo (letterer), João Pombeiro (adapter), and Martin Tejada (adapter); "Number 13 Chapter Three" by Robert Love (writer/artist), David Walker (writer), and Diego Simone (colorist); "Resident Alien Chapter One: Welcome to Earth" by Peter Hogan (writer) and Steve Parkhouse (artist); "Criminal Macabre: Die, Die, My Darling! Part One" by Steve Niles (writer), Christopher Mitten (artist), Michelle Madsen (colorist), and Nate Piekos (letterer); "Marked Man Part Four" by Howard Chaykin (writer/artist), Jesus Aburto (colorist), and Ken Bruzenak (letterer); "Age of Reptiles: The Body" by Ricardo Delgado (writer/artist) and Jim Campbell (colorist); "Finder: Third World Part 4″ by Carla Speed McNeil (writer/artist), Jen Manley Lee (colorist), and Bill Mudron (colorist); "The Protest" by Dara Naraghi (writer) and Victor Santos (artist); "Teenagers" by Patrick Alexander (writer/artist). $7.99, 81 pgs, FC, Dark Horse.
I continue to like DHP very much, even though, as an anthology, you're going to get some missteps (Howard Chaykin, for instance, continues to prove that his best work is 25 years in the past). The point is, so far in this series, we've gotten very few missteps, while the other stories range from entertaining to downright excellent. I never really have a lot to say about this comic – you can see the collection of talent above, and the chapters of the serials are so short it's difficult to critique them in any meaningful way – but that doesn't mean I don't dig it. And in this issue, we get a short story from Dorkin and Thompson about the Beasts of Burden, which just whets my appetite for another mini-series (get on that, people!); we get the first chapter of an oddball private investigator – Dog Mendonça – who begins to tell us his life story as a circus performer; we get the hilarious first chapter of "Resident Alien" by Hogan and Parkhouse, about a marooned alien on Earth who just wants to be left alone but chose to pretend to be a doctor, so when there's a murder in town, the cops call him in; we get the first chapter of a Cal McDonald mystery, and while the very few times I've read Niles's Cal McDonald stories I haven't loved them, at least Mitten is drawing this; we get another excellent Finder short story; and we get a very nice tale about growing up in Iran under the Ayatollah. I mean, that's diversity AND quality! Whoo-hoo! Yes, each issue is 8 dollars, but considering half that gets you 20 pages from some publishers and there are no ads and the people who work on this book actually know what they're doing with regards to comics, it's a steal. A STEAL!!!!!!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
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Fables #109 ("Inherit the Wind Chapter Two: Cardinal Virtues") by Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha (inker), Lee Loughridge (colorist), and Todd Klein (letterer). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC, DC/Vertigo.
Willingham does his thing, juggling a few story threads that may or may not come to fruition in this arc but will down the road a piece. The main plot concerns Snow and Bigby's kids, one of whom is supposed to succeed as the North Wind. Ozma gave one of them a prophecy which doesn't sound particularly nice, and Snow is upset about it. In Oz, the ragtag group under Bufkin are still lurking around, while Rose goes back to the Farm and Mrs. Spratt continues to prepare for her vengeance. It's all very interesting, but as always, we're in the middle of a story arc in the one hundred ninth issue of a series, so it's difficult to get into it all. This is just a good comic, as always.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
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Generation Hope #11 ("Schism Part Two") by Kieron Gillen (writer), Tim Seeley (artist), Val Staples (colorist), Sotocolor (colorist), and Dave Sharpe (letterer). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC, Marvel.
I wonder why Gillen is leaving this comic after next issue, because this seems like the kind of book you'd want to write for as long as you can – the characters are essentially yours, and as long as sales keep up, you can do almost whatever you want because nobody cares if you kill off, I don't know, Idie in some issue. Gillen also seems to have at least one big plot thread unresolved (which, based on the cover for issue #12, might be resolved next time?), so there's that. Anyway, I just wonder why he's leaving, unless he simply doesn't have the time. I can buy that.
So this is another tie-in to "Schism," which means the kids get shunted aside to allow the X-Men to fight each other (in a different book, of course), which means Gillen gets to write spot-on dialogue that reveals a great deal about the characters, which is his strength anyway, so this is a fine issue. I too wondered where the other groups of young mutants that always seem to crop up every few years were, so Gillen brings some of them into the picture. Meanwhile, Hope is still dealing with dissent within the group, especially from Laurie, who freaks out at her in this issue. That leads to the lingering plot thread with Kenji, but I shan't go into that here.
Seeley is the artist again, and he's fine, although years of drawing naked chicks has apparently rendered him incapable of drawing clothing, because Laurie and Hope both look like they're naked with body paint on (Laurie might be naked for all I know, but I know Hope is wearing a uniform). It's a bit disconcerting when they're talking, because they look absolutely starkers. It's bizarre. But Seeley's first and last pages are very well done (well, they're all good, but the first and last pages are very good), and I don't have any problems with his art.
I'm going to miss Gillen on this title. It will make a nice trade if Marvel chooses to release all twelve in one, or two nice trades if they don't. They should, though. That would be pretty neat.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆
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Hellblazer #283 ("The Devil's Trenchcoat Part One: The Stench That Lingers") by Peter Milligan (writer), Giuseppe Camuncoli (layouter), Stefano Landini (finisher), Trish Mulvihill (colorist), and Sal Cipriano (letterer). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC, DC/Vertigo.
I very much doubt if anyone ever thought we'd get a story narrated by John's trench coat, but guess what? it has arrived. Yes, Gemma stole John's trenchcoat a while back, and she sold it to someone and now it ended up an on-line auction site. Some schmuck bought it and the coat basically turned him into John Constantine, which was good news for a while (John always knows how to get laid) but wasn't good news for long (the coat is as much of a bastard as John is!). John is trying to figure out what's going on with his coat, and it's possible something else is happening (his flat seems to be acting weird, but it's unclear whether that has to do with the coat or not). Meanwhile, the strange girl who helped Gemma get revenge on her uncle is demanding payment … in murder!!!!! Oh dear. And let's not even talk about John's father-in-law interrupting John and Epiphany in the shower. Boundaries, man, boun-da-ries!
Yes, it's another twisted and excellent issue of Hellblazer. I actually don't like weeks like this, when a bunch of my favorite comics come out, because I don't feel like I have anything to say about them. THEY'RE ALL FUCKING GOOD! Oh, I will once again comment on Milligan's or Camuncoli's or even Vertigo's bizarre policy toward nipples in this book. THIS IS A "MATURE READERS" COMIC!!!! I very much doubt if your local comic book retailer will cavalierly sell this to an impressionable young lad or lass who, of course, never plays FPS games in which they blow people's brains out, yet Vertigo (or Milligan or Camuncoli) has an odd attitude toward nipples. Two women have sex in this book, and Camuncoli goes out of his way, it seems, to obscure their nipples behind their own arms. In fact, when Epiphany is in the shower, he doesn't bother to block where her nipple would be, he just doesn't draw one. Weird. As usual, I don't want my comics to be wall-to-wall nudity (although that might be the most Airwolf panel ever), but if your characters are in a situation where you would see stuff, draw it. John's bait and tackle are artfully concealed in shadow in another panel, but I guess I've long reconciled myself to Vertigo's belief that "mature readers" means readers who aren't mature enough to see dick. FREE THE NIPPLES, VERTIGO (or MILLIGAN or CAMUNCOLI). You have nothing to lose but your prudishness.
Sorry about that. It's been a little bit since I ranted about nipples here. I didn't want you to think I'd given up on it!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆
One totally Airwolf panel:
Near Death #1 by Jay Faeber (writer), Simone Guglielmini (artist), Ron Riley (colorist), and Charles Pritchett (letterer). $2.99, 21 pgs, FC, Image.
Jay Faerber, who's been out of comics and working in television for a few years (he's a staff writer on the new show Sarah Michelle Gellar show Ringer, which I didn't watch but which features one of the worst green screens in recent memory, which isn't Faerber's fault of course, but dear Lord if you look at that footage it looks like someone colorized a show from the 1960s, man!), is back with Near Death (which is set in Seattle, which he abandoned when he went all Hollywood, man!), a comic that doesn't seem to have much shelf life but which, at least for one issue, works perfectly fine. The conceit is that a dude named Markham, who's a hitman, has a near death experience in which he sees the corpses of everyone he's ever killed (and he's been working for a long time, man). One of them tells him that if he wants to make up for it (Markham doesn't believe in the afterlife, of course, and once he realizes that it exists, he has a change of heart tout suite), he can balance the scales in some way – Markham wakes up before we can find out how. The first thing he does is rescue a federally protected witness that he was supposed to kill from the hitman who was hired to replace him. And we're off!
The problem with the idea is that, so far, we don't exactly know how Markham is going to balance the scales. Obviously, he's not going to be a hitman anymore, but what kind of good Samaritan is he going to be? To rescue the witness, he slaps a (somewhat) innocent woman and shoots the dude who replaced him in the head (I would say "kills," but because Markham is apparently a lousy hitman, he doesn't kill him, which of course will cause complications for Markham in the future). So is he going to save people's lives or just make them better? I imagine the former, because if it's the latter, we'd get a comic of Markham standing around in a soup kitchen volunteering. But the mission is still a bit unclear, which is fine for now (it's the first issue, after all), but I hope we get Markham's idea of it pretty soon.
This may sound like I didn't enjoy Near Death. Well, that's not true. Faerber is stretching himself a bit here, as in the past decade he's become one of the best superhero writers around and this, of course, isn't a superhero book. But one of his strengths is finding the core of the character very quickly, and we get a very good sense of Markham from this comic, as he's still a violent dude and he doesn't know how to react when the witness thanks him. It's a clever way to show that Markham will probably struggle with this new, "I'm not a hitman" thing he's working on. Plus, the art is very cool. Faerber mentions in the backmatter that Rucka and Southworth make Portland a character in Stumptown, and it's interesting that he mentions Stumptown because Guglielmini's rough art reminds me a bit of Southworth's in that comic. Of course, I like noirish comics, so I'm glad Faerber found an artist whose work is a bit darker. Ron Riley, meanwhile, is amazing on colors – the opening scene is a beautiful contrast of blues and yellows (the foundation of modern comic book coloring, don't you know, and Riley nicely makes it explicit) as Markham arrives at a doctor's (well, a vet's) clinic at night, with the street lamps providing the illumination. When Markham has his near death experience, Riley switches from the gloom to a painfully bright desert, contrasting it with Seattle's murk and rain that permeates much of the book. Guglielmini has some nice pencil work, but Riley really helps bring it to life.
If you think this book sounds like a Stephen J. Cannell television show from the 1980s, I'm sure Faerber, who often writes about his love of Cannell shows, would thank you. This sounds very much like a "rescue someone in peril every month" kind of book with an overarcing plot about Markham's attempts to get out of the business, and that's perfectly fine with me. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that Markham is going to get a boat, and therefore this comic will not be as awesome as Cannell's Riptide. Admit it, people – YOU TOTALLY LOVED RIPTIDE!!!!!!!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
One totally Airwolf panel:
Northlanders #44 ("The Icelandic Trilogy Part Three: Slavery 886″) by Brian Wood (writer), Paul Azaceta (artist), Dave McCaig (colorist), and Travis Lanham (letterer). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC, DC/Vertigo.
The first part of "The Icelandic Trilogy" comes to a close, as Ulf has a son (not without some controversy!) to carry on his family's name and probably cause all sorts of trouble for future generations of Icelanders. Wood has done a good job in these three issues showing how Ulf is both horrible and brutal yet loving (in his way) and just (again, in his way). Ulf is not a nice guy, per se, but he does love Una and he is distressed that he fucks her all the time but she doesn't get pregnant (I'd like to know how he has time for conquering if he's screwing all day, but that's for another day!). Throughout this series, Wood has done a very good job showing how Vikings lived and how alien their mindset is to 21st-century folk. Ulf might appear to be a monster, but he does what he has to do and by the end of this section of the story, he's established a bloodline and brought a measure of peace to Iceland. Wood doesn't excuse his characters, but he also understands that the world they lived in was far different than ours. I'm looking forward to the final six issues of this epic to see how Ulf's family changes Iceland over the centuries.
Anyway, it's been a while since I've mentioned Wood's historical accuracy, and I'm a bit sad he doesn't seem to come around here much anymore, so I'm going to poke the bear! So Ulf is practicing using what looks like a longbow with one of his posse. He's having trouble with it, and he says "How do the English manage this?" I can't say with 100% certainty that this is a wild anachronism, but I'm going to anyway. First of all, Ulf has spent his life in Iceland, which is a bit far away from England. Has he ever been there? I doubt it. Maybe he heard about them from other travelers, because I very much doubt if the English of 886 were sailing to Iceland with much regularity. Then there's the bows. I haven't been able to find much about it, but what I have found says that the Anglo-Saxons of the ninth century weren't using longbows like the one Ulf has. The famous English longbows, of course, were first unleashed in France during the Hundred Years' War, but even if we trace them backward, it doesn't appear that any English were practicing archery prior to the 12th century. If you're thinking it doesn't matter, it would be as if we were reading a story about Elizabethan England where stealth bombers flew through the sky targeting Shakespeare with laser scopes. As cool as that might be, it wouldn't historically accurate, now would it? I'm not sure what the longbow is doing in Iceland in 886, because Wood doesn't really need it to make his point – that Ulf is a tough motherfucker. He could have used something else that fits. Oh well – as usual, I love Northlanders and I'm just having some fun. It's fiction, after all, and it's not like Ulf and his retainer are driving snowmobiles or anything. I'm sure someone had a bow somewhere in ninth century Europe that Ulf could have discovered!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆
One totally Airwolf panel:
The Red Wing #3 (of 4) ("The Stack") by Jonathan Hickman (writer), Nick Pitarra (artist), and Rachelle Rosenberg (colorist). $3.50, 21 pgs, FC, Image.
As ridiculous as time travel is and as silly as Hickman's attempts to explain it are (they're no worse nor better than Ellis's or anyone else's who tries), The Red Wing is superb, and I'm looking forward to the ending. I can't really write too much about it without giving it away, but the last page is staggering, as Dom decides to take matters into his own hands and do something about the bad guys attacking the base. He knows what's going to happen, but he does it anyway, and Pitarra draws a final double-page spread that's simply amazing. I'm very keen to read the final issue. Dang, Hickman is good when he gets to the point.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆
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Spontaneous #4 (of 5) ("Burn") by Joe Harris (writer), Brett Weldele (artist), and Douglas E. Sherwood (letterer). $3.99, 26 pgs, FC, Oni Press.
In this penultimate issue, we start to learn quite a bit more about the people who have been bursting into flames and why they're bursting into flames. Harris doesn't give everything away, of course, but he gets us to a good point for the final issue. I'm a bit bummed by the "government experiments" aspect of the comic, but I do like that Mr. Grumm seems to be more involved than you might expect. I'm curious to find out what he did to Melvin's father, because we find out some interesting stuff with regard to that aspect of the plot, ending with a shocking! revelation! As always, Weldele is phenomenal. I'm sure have more thoughts after I read the final issue!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
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Thunderbolts #163.1 ("End of a Circle") by Jeff Parker (writer), Declan Shalvey (artist), Frank Martin Jr. (colorist), and Joe Caramagna (letterer). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC, Marvel.
Parker gives us another decent ".1″ issue, as the remaining Thunderbolts try to track down their wayward charges and they end up at one of Satana's teleport portals, where Songbird falls into a sleep that makes her dreams seem real. Luckily for new readers, she dreams about the origins of the Thunderbolts and how they evolved! How handy! So we get six pages in the middle of the issue that summarizes a bit of the history of the team, especially how they came together in the first place. It's placed nicely in the middle of the issue, so while nothing much happens in the issue itself, Parker manages to move the plot forward slightly while making sure new readers know what's going on. He even sets up how they're going to find the escapees. More handiness!
Shalvey draws it well. He's doing the next stage of "The Icelandic Trilogy," which should be keen. Good to see him getting more work!
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
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Uncanny X-Men #543 by Kieron Gillen (writer), Greg Land (penciler), Jay Leisten (inker), Justin Ponsor (colorist), and Joe Caramagna (letterer). $3.99, 20 pgs, FC, Marvel.
This is the first Gillen issue on the book that I haven't really enjoyed, which means that Greg Land's artwork started sapping my overall enjoyment of the issue even sooner, unfortunately. It's not that it's a terrible issue by any means, it's just that Gillen is constrained by the dictates of the crossover, so after all the machinations to get Peter to turn into the Juggernaut, Cain Marko just disappears on page 11. Peter was beating him to death, but he doesn't disappear because of that – he disappears because presumably he needs to be somewhere for Fear Itself #7. I know that Scott didn't know that, but it seems that they turned Peter into the Juggernaut for absolutely no reason, and if they had just delayed Cain Marko for a few more minutes he would have disappeared of his own accord and San Francisco would have been saved. It's a dumb ending to a not-bad idea, and it allows Gillen, at least, to write some nice scenes with Peter and Kitty and Peter and Illyana, and I guess Peter's going to be the Juggernaut for a while, so there's that. The parts with Emma making out with Namor (after he stops her from smothering Hope with a pillow) and Scott acting like a bad-ass with the mayor … well, the less said about those the better.
The next issue is the last one, because Marvel has been infected with DC-itis and they're rebooting the series, and after that I'll be leaving the book as well to switch to waiting for the trade. I'm sorry, but 4 bucks for 20 pages (and 20 pages of Land art, to boot) just isn't doing it for me. Even after the reboot, Land will still be around for some of the arcs, and I can't abide that except maybe in trade format, which is a bit cheaper and doesn't have any ads. So that's that.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
One totally Airwolf panel:
Witch Doctor #3 (of 4) by Brandon Seifert (writer/letterer), Lukas Ketner (artist), Sunny Gho (colorist), and Andy Troy (colorist). $2.99, 22 pgs, FC, Image/Skybound.
The creators of Witch Doctor actually apologize for this issue being late, which was nice of them. It's actually not that late (the second issue shipped in late July), and anyway, people who buy comics from companies other than the Big Two ought to know that maybe, just maybe, the books will be late (how's that latest issue of Orc Stain coming, I wonder?). I certainly wouldn't want this to be a book that came out once a year, but a few weeks late is fine. But it's cool that they apologized for it!
Witch Doctor, by the way, is excellent. Yes, Seifert is ripping off several sources, and I'm not a big fan of the "ancient ones" meme that pops up in monster books far too often (LOVECRAFT MADE THAT SHIT UP, PEOPLE!), but I don't care, mainly because plots are just plots, and Seifert is doing very well with the interactions between the characters. Dr. Morrow's agenda that he's kept so far from his assistant, Eric, is fine, as is his banter with Absinthe, the museum curator, but the brilliant part of the issue is when we see what's going on inside Penny Dreadful's head and how tragic her case really is. Plus, this book is downright funny. And it looks great. Ketner draws nice and icky monsters, and the scene with Penny and the things in her head is just scary. I'm enjoying the hell out of this book, and Seifert and Ketner can take a little longer to get an issue out, for all I care (of course, unless delays cost them readers and the book gets cancelled, in which case, boo).
I do find it very humorous that some swear words are blacked out. This is a comic in which a teenager is eating a monster and Ketner draws it beautifully (see below), yet we can't see curse words. Much like the nipples in Hellblazer, I'm not sure why the swear words can't show up. There's nothing on here that says it's for "mature readers," so I guess conceivably a youngster who never, ever says a swear word (I'm fairly sure no 12-year-old has ever cursed in his or her life) could purchase this, but if that's true, what's the deal with Seifert even writing it? Did he know it would be blacked out? If he did, why on earth would he write "fucked" in his script? He didn't have to write it, after all. It just seems odd that if you know it's going to get blacked out, you still write it. Weird.
Anyway, that's nothing important, I suppose. What is important is that Witch Doctor is a hell of a lot of fun. You should buy it. Now. What are you waiting for?!?!? I mean, it's not as classy as Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne knocking boots, but what is, right?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
One totally Airwolf panel:
X-Factor #225 by Peter David (writer), Leonard Kirk (artist), Matt Milla (colorist), and Cory Petit (letterer). $2.99, 20 pgs, FC, Marvel.
Leonard Kirk jumps into the art chores, because X-Factor, apparently, has to have three primary artists (from what David implied in the letters page). I don't have a problem with it, because I like Kirk (although his drawing of Longshot's hair style is pretty atrocious), but it's just odd. Anyway, Rictor has his powers back (and isn't it nice that Marvel – more specifically David – put a footnote in the comic explaining that he got them back in Children's Crusade #6, because if you want, you can check that comic out – hey, cross-promotion!), Rahne's all bummed out that she rejected her child (which came out of her frickin' mouth, so you can understand why she did it), and X-Factor has a new case – the murder from last issue! Which is where things get weird, as the corpse doesn't want to stay dead. And whatever's in the corpse recognizes Layla. And calls her an "acolyte," which makes me hope that we're going to see Fabian Cortez and that dude with two heads soon. But we're probably not. So sad!
Why yes, it is another fine issue of X-Factor. Why do you ask?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
One totally Airwolf panel:
Zorro Rides Again #3 (of 12) by Matt Wagner (writer), Esteve Polls (artist), Oscar Manuel Martin (colorist), and Simon Bowland (letterer). $3.99, 22 pgs, FC, Dynamite Entertainment.
I fear for Diego's father. He's discovered Diego's secret identity (otherwise known as "the kiss of death") and he's also, apparently, getting noble ideas about standing up to the bad guys. Man, that has "bad idea" written all over it. I mean, like "adapting British shows for American television" bad idea. (Seriously – as attractive as Maria Bello is, she's wearing a stupid hat* and Helen Mirren can not only out-act her even if she – Mirren, that is – was drugged, Dame Helen can probably kick the shit out of Ms. Bello with both hands tied behind her back.) So let's raise a glass to Diego's dad, who probably won't be with us much longer.
Oh, and Zorro does some swashbuckling. And a woman makes sex jokes about her lover's "sword." And there's derring-do! It's a Zorro comic! What do you expect?
* I have long said that women wearing hats immediately become anywhere from 10 to 50 per cent hotter. Maria Bello and that hat really puts that theory to the test, I tells ya.**
** Yes, I'm pandering very much to Travis Pelkie. I'm not proud.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
One totally Airwolf panel:
Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910-2010 by Michael Kupperman. $19.99, 148 pgs, BW, Fantagraphics.
I don't find Kupperman as much of a genius as Our Dread Lord and Master, but he's pretty danged funny. This is mostly a prose book with some comics and other illos. Should be interesting.
Ruse: The Victorian Guide to Murder by Mark Waid (writer), Mirco Pierfederici (artist/colorist), Minck Oosterveer (artist), Antonio Fabela (colorist), and Rob Steen (letterer). $14.99, 88 pgs, FC, Marvel.
I might review this. I might not. We'll see. And why, in a four-issue mini-series that wasn't tied to any particular event, does Oosterveer draw issue #3? I like Oosterveer's art more than Pierfederici's (which isn't bad, to be fair), so I would have liked if he drew the entire thing, but why did they need a guest artist? Strange.
So, I suppose it's time for The Ten Most Recent Songs Played On My iPod (Which Is Always On Shuffle), isn't it? Let's do it!
1. "Broken Hearts"1 – Living Colour (1988) "A tear that takes forever rolls down your timeless face"
2. "All That That Brings" – Straitjacket Fits (1988) "Now honesty is one big lie to me when I can hide behind the truth of lost lorn longing"
3. "Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley" – Robert Palmer (1974) "I'd better find something to do with my time; the fact is I've just been caught"
4. "Punk It Up" – Infectious Grooves (1991)2 "Kick you in the butt get your booty on the move"
5. "See You" – Foo Fighters (1997) "These steps I take don't get me anywhere, I'm getting further from myself"
6. "Steppin' Out" – Joe Jackson (1982) "We'll leave the TV and the radio behind; don't you wonder what we'll find"3
7. "Once" – Pearl Jam (1991) "I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode"
8. "Mind Riot" – Soundgarden (1991) "I was crying from my eye teeth and bleeding from my soul"
9. "Maybelline"4 – Chuck Berry (1955) "It done got cloudy and started to rain, I tooted my horn for the passin' lane"
10. "Beautiful People" – Token Entry (1990) "No matter what I do I always seem to be a square"
1 Holy crap, Corey Glover is really, um, showing quite a bit with those stretch pants. Give the ladies what they want, sir!
2 This album is out of print and it doesn't look like it's coming back into print anytime soon. That's a shame, because this album kicks much ass.
3 I love this song and have for 30 years – no, I don't know why 11-year-old me liked this song so much. It makes me oddly sad, though. I don't know why.
4 I've linked to this video before, but you really should watch it. It's awesome. And I wish that after this song, "Ride On, Josephine" had come on. That would have been cool.
Wait, is it time for a Totally Random Movie Quote? I think it is!
"You think wedding vows are going to change everything? God, your naïvete is astounding! Didn't you see The Graduate?"
"You can remember The Graduate?"
"Yeah, I can remember a few things. Apparently you don't. The end? Katharine Ross has just married this really cool guy – tall, blond, incredibly popular, the make-out king of his fraternity in Berkeley – when this obnoxious Dustin Hoffman character shows up at the back of the church, acting like a total asshole. 'Elaine! Elaine!' Does Katharine Ross tell Dustin Hoffman, 'Get lost, creep. I'm a married woman'? No. She runs off with him – on a bus. That is the reality."
This entire movie is eminently quotable. In fact, this writer's entire oeuvre is eminently quotable. Dang, I wish he made more movies!
I hope everyone has a nice day. Get out and enjoy the fall weather! Or the spring weather! Or, if you live in Arizona, the summer weather! Whoo-hoo!
I'll bite! It's just that you havent given me any reason to comment these past few months.
First off, lots about this arc is going to be anachronistic, and honestly I don't care so much. It's my last hurrah with the series and I'm more interested in having fun and getting to the stuff I wanted to get to that adhering rigidly to the textbooks. THAT SAID, I don't think the things you pointed out really qualify.
By 886, England had been steadily raided by all manner of Norse and Dane for a hundred years. Could some of those ships come from Iceland? Why not? With Ulf on board? Why not? At the very least someone could have brought him back a bow. I love those yew bows… if you recall they first appeared in the first Northlanders story. Anyway, wait till you see the crossbow in the next part of the trilogy, if this here chaps your ass.
Secondly, bows date back to the time of Stonehenge, in England. So while they weren't popular or deployed en masse in battle before the 1200's (although don't forget the Battle Of The Standard!), they certainly existed to one degree or another. And apropos of nothing, the Holmegaard Bow suggests the tech is some 9000 years old.
But mostly I just like them and wanted to take them around the block one last time. But I think I'm more right in using them here than you think I am.
I thought Gillen did a good job with the Juggernaut thing. The whole line about even he can't stop himself was pretty awesome. Land is Land…just keep looking forward to Pacheco.
Huh. I guess I thought it was kind of obvious that Markham was going to start saving lives instead of taking them. But perhaps it wasn't as clear as I thought…
Brian: Well, I'm glad you're still reading! I was just having some fun, as you know – it's kind of ingrained in my psyche that Crécy was the "coming out" party of the English longbow, so when Ulf said that, it caught my attention. As you said, there's evidence for them going back thousands of years, so I'm perfectly willing to go along with it. I just like needling you sometimes!
John: I actually liked the way Gillen wrote Peter-as-Juggernaut, because he did have some cool lines. I just thought it was annoying that he got yanked away in the service of the bigger event and the resolution to this storyline was kind of weak.
Rubin: Dang, I didn't think it was that easy. What a great movie!
Jay: Well, as you know, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, so maybe others will be able to make the leap from "balancing the scales" to saving lives. I kind of figured that's what he was going to do (and I think it was mentioned in the solicitation text), but Markham is kind of coy about it. Still, I liked that his first "mission," so to speak, was something personal (sort of) to him, and I'm looking forward to seeing how he figures out how to find people to save. I'm thinking it will have to do with him knowing who his former employers are targeting and saving them, but I can wait to find out!
I dig the hat. I dig all ladies who wear hats. Everyone else looks better in a hat than I do.
I had, rather having came.
Damn, I used to love Nightbreed – and the shock of Cronenberg as the villain was only part of it. It was like a comic book before we had comic book movies. Has anyone seen it lately? Is it horrible?
The worst part of having Land as a rotating artist is that it's so poorly style matched. If you try to read a few arcs in a row you get a huge shift very suddenly. And because Land has no style Gillen can't even do style shifting in his writing to match like when Milligan does different types of stories for Bisley than for Cammo.
Dog Mendonça is the first portuguese comic ever to be published in the US. Hurrah for my country!
Just wanted to say that.
@ Pedro Bouça: I'll second that!
@Brian Wood: if you're not that worried about anachronisms in these last issues, can I hope for the snowmobiles that Greg mentioned?
Jesus… Snowmobile Vikings would make a great C-movie
If you trust Wikipedia, Ulf should have said "How do the Welsh manage these" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow#Origins
Oh, it took me a few times to grasp why you brought up Ringer. Damn you SMG for enticing me to watch it! It's…bad, but there are parts that are really good. The whole concept that she could take over her sister's life and no one really notices is strange, and the whole plotline of the second ep (which you should check both eps out if you can) was fuckin' goofy, but the bit at the end with her stepdaughter was pretty good. Faerber hopefully can improve things…
Pandering to me? Aw, I feel special.
And it would have been wonderful if Men Without Hats had come up on your ipod.
No Major Bummer collection?
Travis: Since I already own Major Bummer, I didn't get the collection. I'll probably pick it up at some point, but I have a lot of other comics to buy without getting things I already own!!!!
There was a line in Uncanny X-Men to the effect of "the Serpent summons his servant home rather than risk his loss." The implication of that, to me, was that Peter actually did stop him from wrecking San Francisco.
The Serpent didn't pull him away because he needed him just this moment such that Juggernaut would have vanished at the same time no matter what the X-Men did, the Serpent pulled him because he had plans for him eventually (or didn't have specific plans but didn't see the point in losing a "Worthy" when he could save him) but the Juggernaut could well have kept rampaging for a few hours before getting withdrawn if Peter hadn't thrashed him.
Just because an enemy retreats from battle and turns up again later doesn't mean they would have left at the same time whether they faced opposition or not.
There were severe conceptual problems with the handling of Cyttorak in UXM. It was as though the Cyttorak that Dr. Strange and n routinely invoked and the one that the X-Men met were two different beings. Strange's Cyttorak is a deity that generates its own magical energy, inhabits its own universe, and is worshiped and invoked by hosts of beings. It's inconceivable that Strange's Cyttorak would have allowed the Serpent to possess the Juggernaut.
If the existence of Strange's Cyttorak is ignored, and the being is written as a demonic humanoid with limited abilities and a power source, then the UXM storyline might work.
"Since I already own Major Bummer, I didn't get the collection."
Words of a wise man! I only started to buy it by issue #10 or so, so I had to preorder the collection. Must be on the way.
Yeah, I'm stupid! I knew that Arcudi and Mahnke were great and should've imagined the series was too. At least I recognized it before cancellation…
ZZZ: Yeah, I forgot about that. My bad. Still, I thought these "Worthy" were supposed to be tough. Marko and Peter fought for a few pages and ex-Juggy's punking out? WEAK!
Eigeman kills in Whit Stillman's movies.
Straightjacket Fits, wow, that's a surprise to see. Some great Kiwi music there!
Do you have any other our great bands on your ipod?
Aaron: No, sorry. I hardly spent any time in NZ, so I didn't get a chance to delve into the music scene while I was there, and not a lot of it makes it to the States. I was lucky enough that I found Hail in a music store in Melbourne!
Yes, I do remember when David Cronenberg was the bad guy in Nightbreed – this was years ago watching the film while a student on a dodgy VHS copy. He was, er, how should we say it… wooden. Or very mannered. I'm betting on the former.
Get back behind the camera!
I have nearly worn out my Joe Jackson: Live: 1980-1986 CDs. Remarkably underappreciated.
Sorry about that. It's been a little bit since I ranted about nipples here. I didn't want you to think I'd given up on it!
It's what makes you more than just another blogger, Greg – you're not just reviewing comics, you're trying to improve them. You've got a cause!
At this point, even if he's not 'the best' writer Hellblazer's ever had, Milligan's got to be the most radical/inventive writer the books ever had, doesn't he?
The problem with the idea is that, so far, we don't exactly know how Markham is going to balance the scales. Obviously, he's not going to be a hitman anymore, but what kind of good Samaritan is he going to be?
He better be a pretty amazing one – there's quite a few kids in that crowd of people he has killed. That really kind of set me against him as a character, and I'm uncertain if I'll stick with the book for long, because I don't think he can be amazing enough in any given adventure to be redeemed of that.
If it was just adults, they could have written around it with most people being in witness protection as gangsters themselves – the series doesn't feel like it's going to be written with the weight to have a main character seeking redemption for being a child killer.
Shouldn't Mark Twain have written "Mark Twain's Autobiography"?
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Cracking open and starting up Fractured Soul, I expected frantic combat akin to old school side-scrolling shooters like Contra. Instead, Fractured Soul delivered an experience much more focused on platforming, but unlike any other title readily available.
See, the game innovates by using both Nintendo 3DS screens to create two parallel worlds which are swapped between freely with the click of a button. The resulting gameplay mixes swapping between these two worlds with a variety of interesting platforming mechanics involving underwater, frozen, extreme heat and anti-gravity environments. Oh, and lasers... freaking lasers everywhere. Add in some mild side-scrolling shooter action and this puzzle-platformer becomes as frantic a game as I initially expected, a blister building, button mashing title that the eShop so sorely needed. Fractured Soul is an ultimately flawed, but compelling downloadable title from Endgame Studios.
Exploring Another World
The entirety of Fractured Soul is based around this dual screen/parallel world concept, which sounds complicated but is actually quite simple, and in practice is hair-pullingly difficult to master. Basically, the character can only be on one screen at a time and with the press of a button will swap into the exact same position on the opposite screen. The worlds on each screen are asynchronous, dissimilar, featuring different obstacles, platforms and enemies. This is where Fractured Soul derives its puzzle and platforming nature, and combat takes a back seat but never at the expense of intensity.
This multi-screen gameplay, at least initially, will create a dissonance that gamers will be completely unfamiliar with. Sure, it's not like DS games haven't been utilizing both screens since the DS initially launched, but never have I experienced the need for such hand-eye coordination in a game. Luckily, Fractured Soul does a good job of tapering the difficulty upwards, from easy to difficult and then difficult again twice over. Early levels will focus on simply leaping from platform to platform, alternating between screens. Then the hand-holding disappears and the top screen goes through a number of significant mechanic changes, including an underwater environment which slows the protagonist but allows them to jump much higher, to an anti-gravity section that forces the player to hop between screens and change the direction of gravity at the same time. Fractured Soul is straight up insidious in its classically inspired difficulty curve, but it deserves much respect for experimenting with the 3DS tech and making a solid game out of it.
Unfortunately, Fractured Soul's innovation doesn't excuse the many, often egregious faults. Foremost, Fractured Soul doesn't do enough to help a player's eyes make the shift from screen to screen naturally. There are two graphics in particular can ruin a lot of of level playthroughs. The first is it creates a "clone" body, a translucent model on the screen the player isn't active on. In the thick of things, this close is simply not different enough to help direct the player during intense moments with lots of shifting. Second, the shifting animation itself creates a large blob-like blur, along with rays of light that are not related to which direction the player shifts. The result is that it's much more difficult to create precise movements when the exact places the player shifts to and from are in a cloud of white. Cleaner design with respect to the shifting would be worth its weight in gold.
Other "clean design" problems proliferate. Certain graphics, due to their pixelization, create imprecision in platforming and combat. The double jump's second jump is slower and less responsive than the first. Gun blasts going behind certain platforms, as opposed to in front of them, causes random damage. Simply put, either Fractured Soul didn't receive enough polish time, or these design issues were simply deprioritized when they shouldn't have been.
Still, perhaps the most frustrating moments in the game aren't due to design issues, but instead come from those age old headache-causers: checkpoints. There are two levels in particular, called "Pits," where the developers decided there would be no checkpoints -- that the levels had to be completed in their entirety in a single run. I don't know who thought this was a good decision, but I don't like them. It was during these levels that I almost set the game aside out of pure frustration, and I doubt that was the developer's intention.
An unspecific criticism I have for Fractured Soul's gameplay is its balance between platforming, puzzles and combat. Fractured Soul is at its best in high intensity platforming moments with plenty of shifting between screens. When it slows down and encourages players to search for hidden items, or sticks a few enemies in the way just to make the player have to deal with them before moving on, the game isn't fun. I attribute this to a lack of a focused direction, perhaps best shown by the unnecessary and unfun space flight levels and bosses, and the poorly done level evaluation system. Many portions of the game feel forced in, often in direct contradiction to the fundamentals of the game that make it enjoyable. For instance, I know you can do boss fights, Endgame, after all the final boss was great. So why make the other bosses part of the underdeveloped SHMUP levels? That's not what anyone is playing Fractured Soul for.
Oh, and before I forget, the game seems to have a really interesting story that has to do with a space station, parallel worlds and the main character's growing insanity. At least, I think it's interesting, because it's told through loading panels that disappear as quickly as they show up and it's difficult to tie everything together. These story prompts also involve a death counter (I finished the game as Entity #288), which ties into the above themes, but since Endgame didn't see fit to dedicate much attention to it, maybe I shouldn't either.
Final Thoughts
Despite its flaws Fractured Soul still stands as one of the best games available on the Nintendo eShop. The screen swapping, even with the graphics issues and my personal difficulties adjusting to the asynchronous gameplay, is a unique mechanic that is both challenging and fun. The game's strongest moments are during high-intensity platforming involving swapping between screens, and weakest when it adds combat to the mix -- or the game turns into a SHMUP. Luckily, most of the game is focused on these intense physics puzzles, as it should.
Overall, Fractured Soul shows a lot of potential. If Endgame Studios can clean up the gameplay so it complements the swapping mechanics rather than detracts, sharpen the edges so platforming isn't so punishing, and scrap and reinvent the game's level evaluation system to encourage and reward players as opposed to belittling them, then the Fractured Soul franchise could have a bright future. As for now, Fractured Soul is an exiting idea with an unclear direction on a platform where it can thrive. I'll recommend it for 3DS fans, but don't say I didn't warn you.
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Running Time: 71
Director: Loretta Sterling
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Kris Newz, Kizzy Blond, Chaz Vincent, Stasha, Kiss
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Genre: Specialty
Stasha plays a double role as a missing heiress and the woman who pretends to be her twin sister. The video opens with the look-a-like and her boyfriend planning the con. They make love to celebrate, with Stasha worshipping his staff in a long oral sex scene. The maid and the butler plant to fake their missing boss' will, leaving themselves as sole beneficiaries —so, of course, they have intercourse to celebrate their scheme. Finally, Stasha's cousin and her husband are invited to the attorney's office, where both Stashas refute all schemes.
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LIMA — Lima police suspect that a Lima man who was transported for a shooting accidentally shot himself while trying to reach for his gun Thursday afternoon.
Michael Swanger, 26, of Lima, was taken to Lima Memorial Health System Thursday afternoon about 4 p.m. after police responded to 352 E. Kibby St. for reports of a shooting.
Lima Police Det. Steve Stechschulte said an investigation revealed Swanger accidentally discharged his gun Thursday and he was not shot by another person.
"He shot himself," Stechschulte said. "He's still claiming someone broke into his house, but he had a gun in his waistband and they were moving out. It was an accidental discharge. He pointed the gun because he thought someone was in the house and then he shot himself."
Swanger shot himself in the leg once. His injuries were not life threatening, Lima Police Det. Scott Leland said Thursday.
That may explain why nearby neighbors, such as Laura Biederman and Jim Biederman, didn't hear any commotion.
"I thought it was weird because it looked like he was moving out earlier today. They had a U-Haul in the driveway and they were carrying out a stove and appliances, it looked like," Laura Biederman said. "But I thought, 'Man he hadn't been here long,' because he just moved in at the beginning of the summer. Nobody stays long in that house. Nobody."
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Drake has learned a valuable lesson this week: never diss your peers on the record. Just one day after calling Macklemore's Grammy apology to Kendrick Lamar "wack as f–k," the Nothing Was the Same rapper is calling out yet another fellow rapper in the industry — Kanye West. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Drake criticized Kanye's critically acclaimed album Yeezus, calling out some of the lyrics as "questionable." "There was some real questionable bars on there," Drake told the magazine. "Like that 'swaghili line? Come on, man. Even Fabolous wouldn't say some s–t like that.'" But the 27-year-old quickly tried to backtrack by telling Rolling Stone he "loves everything about the guy." As he should, considering Kanye was one of the first rappers to collaborate with Drake, and he even directed the video for his 2010 hit, "Best I Ever Had." And despite their falling out later that year, the two seemingly buried the hatchet last August at Drizzy's OVO Fest in Toronto. "Sometimes rap, the business, the competitiveness and just the heart behind it forces you to not talk to the people you quietly admire," Drake told MTV News last August. But now Drake is crying wolf by saying he never talked about Yeezus during the interview with Rolling Stone. "I never commented on Yeezus for my interview portion of Rolling Stone. They also took my cover from me last minute and ran the issue." Drizzy tweeted on February 13, before it was removed. He then added a follow-up tweet: "I'm done doing interviews for magazines. I just want to give my music to the people. That's the only way my message gets across accurately. It's OK, Drizzy. Everyone has an off day. Take a tip or two from your friend (frenemy?) Kanye West, and be slightly more thoughtful next time. Until then, we're sure a nice baby diamond tennis bracelet for Nori will get you back in Kanye's good graces. Crystal Bell is an editor at Wetpaint Entertainment and our resident fangirl for all things Pretty Little Liars. Follow her on Twitter and Google+!


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Around 12:30 during lunch we had a tornado pass within sight of the marina and we were all in an underground room in the lodge. I went to a window briefly and took a short video but the park Superintendent told us I had just missed one that passed on the other side of the cove from the marina. I missed getting it on video by about 30 seconds it appears.
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2bed/1.5bath apartment near Pantheon, Rome WhenJuly 18-23, 2007, 5 nights LocationWe were picked up at the airport by Rome City Apartments and taken to "Royale." The apartment was located two blocks from the Pantheon in an amazing area of Rome. After paying for our rental, and provided a few restaurant hints, we were on our own. The apartment was nicely decorated, and the location was fabulous - each morning I woke early and walked into Pantheon square for espresso. More about the apartment. Accommodations were nice - two bedrooms and one main bathroom (small toilet off the kitchen doesn't count). Bathroom was a bit dirty when we arrived, but the agency sent someone right out to clean it better. Kitchen was on the newer side, although we only used the refrigerator. Washing machine was newer, but a bit confusing to use (we figured it out). Living room was plenty big enough, and there was a very nice terrace (wine at 5:30pm listening to church bells!). A/C was sufficient (single unit in living room), but the circuit breaker clicked off a few afternoons (make sure you find out where the circuit breaker is). All in all, a very pleasant stay with Rome City Apartments. Nearby AmenitiesRestaurants and grocery stores abound! Be careful of the restaurants on Pantheon square (good food, great service, VERY expensive). Grocery store just off of the square (left at McDonalds, up the street) - good place to buy cheese, wine, water, etc. The House/ApartmentMost other apartments had regular occupants. Building appeared 17th century, but was clean and cool. Elevator very interesting (SMALL - two people maximum), but didn't prove to be a problem. GardenTerrace was rather bare, but we brought chairs out to enjoy the "rooftops of Rome." Furnishings/Cleanliness/Living AreasFurniture was in good shape and apartment was pretty clean (see note above about bathroom). Bedrooms/BathroomsBeds were fine, and bedrooms were simple but functional. KitchenKitchen was fine. Problems or BonusesLocation was great, right in the heart of renaissance Rome! Agency and Representatives (and price)Agency was responsive and helpful. Met us at the airport on time, and were waiting at the apartment when we arrived. Do you recommend this vacation rental to others?Yes, I'd stay here again. At the prices of Roman hotels, this was a bargain. Understand that you're not staying at a five star hotel, but in an apartment, adjust your attitude (and expectations), and Royale was great for my family of five. Things to do in this areaNot enough room to write about all there is to do! This review is the opinion of a Slow Travel member and not of slowtrav.com. |
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The Hamming was named for R. W. Hamming, an associate of J. W. Tukey and is described in Blackman and Tukey. It was recommended for smoothing the truncated autocovariance function in the time domain. Most references to the Hamming window come from the signal processing literature, where it is used as one of many windowing functions for smoothing values. It is also known as an apodization (which means "removing the foot", i.e. smoothing discontinuities at the beginning and end of the sampled signal) or tapering function.
[R30] | Blackman, R.B. and Tukey, J.W., (1958) The measurement of power spectra, Dover Publications, New York. |
[R31] | E.R. Kanasewich, "Time Sequence Analysis in Geophysics", The University of Alberta Press, 1975, pp. 109-110. |
[R32] | Wikipedia, "Window function", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_function |
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Gila monsters out in Arizona earlier than usual
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Gila monsters are out of their winter burrows about two weeks earlier than usual this year -- looking for chow now and lizard love in the near future.
Reptile experts said the hefty critters, which are venomous but generally not aggressive, apparently are active a bit ahead of schedule because of the unusually warm late-winter weather.
No Gila monster bites have been reported this year, according to the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center.
``They are out about two weeks ahead of schedule,'' said Roger Repp, president of the Tucson Herpetological Society and an avid observer and student of Gila monsters. ``It has been warm, and as things get warm the Gila monsters tend to get jacked up and come out.''
Bill Savary, a member of the society, said the warm weather ``is no doubt a contributing factor'' to the critters' early appearance above ground.
``The first Gila monster I saw this year was a couple weeks ago,'' Savary said. ``But other people have been reporting them in recent days, and I moved one off the road near my house'' on Sunday.
Adult Gila monsters are, well, big honkin' lizards with large heads and thick tails.
``Twenty inches long would be a big Gila monster,'' said Repp. ``The heaviest one I've ever weighed is roughly 850 grams -- equal to almost two pounds.''
As striking as a G-monster's size is its color, with hues of orange and pink set off against background shades of dark brown and black.
On the menu: The big lizards feed on small rodents, birds' eggs, baby birds and other fare.
Mating is likely to begin sometime in the coming weeks.
``The earliest reported early breeding in the wild that I have ever heard of was April 1,'' Repp said. ``And most experts agree that May 1 is normal.''
Females typically lay about six eggs during the summer.
``We do not see the hatchlings until late April to May the following year,'' Repp said.
People bitten by Gila monsters usually are people who pick the animals up or otherwise get too close, but now and then someone is bitten when reaching under a rock or going barefoot.
While the bites can be painful and venom can be delivered into the wound, deaths from bites have been extremely rare, with the most recent documented death about 100 years ago.
Repp's advice: ``What I would like people to do when they see a Gila monster is feel the same elation that I feel when I do. Know that one can safely approach to a few steps away without being in any danger. Trying to pick one up is not advisable, illegal, and dangerous.''
Other potentially dangerous critters are also out and about as the weather warms, including rattlesnakes and bees.
Keith Boesen, director of the Poison and Drug Information Center, said the center has received reports of five rattlesnake bites in February and one in March so far. The center covers all Arizona counties except Maricopa County, where another center keeps track of bites.
Steve Thoenes, president of a bee-removal company called BeeMaster Inc., said bees are busy.
``They're swarming now due to the citrus and creosote blossoms,'' Thoenes said. ``It's been off and on for about two weeks. We're getting calls for removals.''
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At 12:05 PM 3/25/2006, K3GM wrote: >My coax entrance panel is now hooked to its own series of ground rods. I >want to bond it and all of the Polyphaser arrestors attached to it to the >utility ground rod. Such a connection is probably required by the electrical code in your area. > If the easiest and shortest path to the utility's entrance ground rod is > thru the interior basement of the home, can I, or should I use it? As others have pointed out, running a conductor that might carry lightning under the house may not be the best plan. >I have a large gauge stranded ground cable running from my well pump to >the service entrance ground rod and is very easy to hook to. Here is where it gets tricky. You'll have to look up the code sections to see if you can bond the antenna lightning protection ground to a electrical safety ground. I'm going to guess that it's not a good idea. a) you might cook your pump if lightning strikes; b) if your well pump has a short, and the grounding conductor winds up carrying significant fault current, then you might wind up making your station grounding panel "live". However... check the code to be sure! > It runs across the the sill of the basement wall within several feet of > the entrance panel, into the garage where it eventually ties directly to > the ground rod. The alternative would be to run an outside wire around my > house, across a double wide driveway and then into my garage to get to > the utility ground. Probably the best plan, overall.. Do you actually have to go "inside" to get to the ground? Usually, there's a ground at your electrical service entrance. It might be inside the wall, but the service entrance is usually on an exterior wall, so your ground bonding conductor can go through the wall right to the common ground point. > Would it be safe, (or code) to use this interior ground wire as part of > my lightning protection system? A great reference on low voltage grounding (and antennas are considered low voltage systems) is the free downloadable handbook at http://www.mikeholt.com/ The code requires ALL external antennas to be grounded properly (dishes, TV antennas, etc.) and that handbook covers all the stuff you need to know (size of the wire, legal places to run it, all those things). And, be aware that "code" isn't the same everywhere. Each AHJ (authority having jurisdiction) typically adopts some revision of the code, and then makes some local modifications. Often the code they use ISN'T the latest one. Most of the code doesn't change much over the years, but grounding is one of those areas where there's actually been a fair amount of fluctuation. Jim, W6RMK _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk |
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I am interested in how wars affect society, especially the health consequences of mass mobilization and military service. This has led me to investigate the origins and history of the 1918 influenza pandemic and I am currently finishing up a book on shell shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. At the same time I am also interested in the operational history of the Great War and earlier conflicts which had led me to write on the Seven Years War, the leadership of Sir Arthur Currie, and to co-edit a series of translations from the German official history of the Great War. My major research project over the next few years will be to investigate war's long term effects on Canadian veterans and their families after they returned home.
Through Veterans' Eyes Project
If researchers could systematically access historical standardized demographic, economic, social, and medical databoth quantitative and qualitativedetailing the lives of ordinary Canadians, from every walk of life and background, what might we learn about the societal challenges and opportunities that we face today? The pension files of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VAC), which are largely unknown and unused, constitute just such an expansive research opportunity. When 620,000 Canadians joined the military during the First World War, they began a life-long relationship with the Canadian state that produced files documenting their experiences from youth to death. These contain regular home visit reports, yearly household balance sheets, detailed household inventories, and voluminous medical records as well as the voices of veterans and their families. In short, they record the lives of Canadians down to the smallest detail. Systematic organization and use of the files will allow researchers to examine a variety of related topics such as working-class experience, the history and treatment of specific diseases, family stability, the gendered economy, and minority experiences. There is, quite simply, no comparable group of records from which to write the social history of twentieth century Canada.
Myself, Cynthia Comacchio, and Terry Copp are using these files to answer three important, interrelated questions:
- Did the experiences of veterans who developed post-combat psychological and physical illness differ from those listed as wounded in action?
- How did the veteran experience shape 're-establishment' on the intimate level of family life and familial relations?
- Were psychologically traumatized conscripts and volunteers treated differently by the state?
Through a partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs, we also plan to digitize, organize, and preserve these files to open up new avenues of research for other scholars.
Mark Humphries, John Maker (editors), Wilhelm J. Kiesselbach (translator), with a forward by Hew Strachan Germanys Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1914 Part I. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013, 620 pp.
Terry Copp and Mark Humphries, Combat Stress in the 20th Century: the Commonwealth Experience. Kingston: Canadian Defence Academy, 2011, 595 pp.
Mark Humphries, John Maker (editors), with a forward by Hew Strachan, Germanys Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1915. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010, 413 pp.
Mark Humphries. Two Solitudes: Canadian Social and Military Historians Confront the Great War, Canadian Historical Review 95, 4 (September 2014): forthcoming.
. Willfully and With Intent: Self-Inflicted Wounds and the Negotiation of Power in the Trenches, Histoire Sociale/Social History XLVII, 94 (June 2014): 369-97.
. A Calamity from which no Relief can be expected: Empire, Authority, and Civilian Responses to the French Occupation of Newfoundland, JuneSeptember 1762, Acadiensis XLIII, 1 (Winter/Spring 2014): 35-64.
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. The Limits of Necessity: Public Health, Dissent, and the War Effort during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, in Esyllt Jones and Magda Fahrni, eds. Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 191820 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012), 2147.
. Old Wine in New Bottles: A Comparison of Canadian and British Preparations for the Battle of Arras, in Geoff Hayes, Andrew Iarocci and Michael Bechthold, (eds.) Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007, 65-86


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SMD-- how to ID ?
I've avoided SMD components for years, but I just inherited some.
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A whole lot of SMD passive components, especially caps, are not even marked these days. Sad, but true.
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Thanks for the link, digitaljunkie.
Unfortunatly, I could not decipher many of the parts....not enough info to be useful to the DIY'er, especially at those sizes. example.....8 pin SOIC labeled : D205 0046Y by Infineon The Infineon site does not even return results when the SMD part # is entered in their search engine. I don't think the other manufacturers return SMD results either, do they ? Less ans less leaded parts these days.....I guess soon, leaded parts will all be rare, and sourced from overstock. =RR= |
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Mary Barbosa was pulled over Sunday for no insurance.
After Barbosa got a ticket, she says an officer asked her to step out of the car.
He then searched hear and patted down her body.
She says the officer used the back of his hand on certain parts of her body.... but feels like a female officer should have done it.
"I just felt bad he started touching me. Because, like I said, he went between my legs and he patted my bottom. And he did my breast .And that was it.," she told us.
Barbosa does claim that she asked for a female officer to do the search.
This afternoon-- Crosbyton police spoke to KAMC News on camera. They say that until they get Barbosa's complaint in writing - they can't talk much about the investigations for this case.
The Crosbyton police cheif tells us that if a woman is pulled over by a male officer, if the officer feels it is necessary to do a quick pat down on a female searching for weapons... it is legally allowed.
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